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Gray Grosvenor bowing to Gladys. Down the long row of dancers that intervened between the head and the foot, tripped the young-hearted matron and bobbed a courtesy, back again, and down once more to turn, giving the right hand, then to favor Larkington with the left. Then both pudgy hands were offered to the long-limbed Englishman, who could shake a foot in the reel with the best of them. Her rotund back contrasted with his sinewy outline in the dos-à-dos, and then began the turning of the gentlemen. First came the breathless dowager to Count Clawski, who with a grave court bow turned her slowly and sedately about, and returned her to Gray Grosvenor, waiting for his partner after having squeezed the pretty hand of Mrs. Craig until her ring cut her finger. Mr. Belhomme next hopped briskly about her portly form, doing all the turning himself, and again she returned to the charge of Gray Grosvenor, who, after another turn, relinquished her to her son, a graceless